SDL 1.3 Roadmap

This is a list of features which are in progress for the SDL 1.3 release. The features are organized by subsystem and assigned to developers. Features will move around as the design evolves.

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Video

Complete

• green

• green

• green

Required

• ???: Implement landscape mode for iPhone port
• Sam: Add support for multiple displays

  • green

  • green

  • Linux
• Sam: Add support for selecting video mode refresh rate

  • green

  • green

  • Linux
• ???: Add OpenGL 3.0 context support

• Sam: Create API for clipboard support (check out PyGame)

• Sam: Create flags for specifying foreign window event behavior

Wishlist

• Create desktop video mode change notification
• Add concept of viewport to fullscreen windows
• Add support for synchronizing 2D updates with vblank (bug #406)
• Support video modes with alpha channels
• Support shaped windows
• Support always-on-top window styles

• Implement NET_WM_PING and NET_WM_PID/WM_CLIENT_MACHINE (http://standards.freedesktop.org/wm-spec/wm-spec-1.3.html#KILLINGWINDOWS)

• Support desktop windows

  •         setAttribute(Qt::WA_X11NetWmWindowTypeDesktop);
            setWindowFlags(Qt::SplashScreen);
    
            Qt::WindowFlags flags = 0;
                flags |= Qt::FramelessWindowHint;
                flags |= Qt::Tool;
                flags |= Qt::WindowStaysOnBottomHint;
    

• Support multiple icon sizes (e.g. for Windows Vista)

Audio

Complete

• green

• green

Required

• green

  • Windows
  • Mac OS X
  • Linux

• green

  • Windows
  • Mac OS X
  • Linux
• Ryan: Add support for audio device live connect and disconnect
• Ryan: Add support for non-power-of-two audio rate conversion

Wishlist

• PCM volume control

Event

Required

• Sam: Add a timestamp to events
• Sam: Add modifier state to key and button events

Wishlist

• Add a way to dynamically register for custom event types

• Add a timeout parameter for SDL_WaitEvent() (http://lists.libsdl.org/pipermail/sdl-libsdl.org/2008-May/thread.html#65067)

Mouse Input

Complete

• green

Required

• Ryan: Add support for multiple mice
  • Q: What is the mapping of individual mice to pointers? Is there a "master pointer" that multiple mice share and then events for the individual mice? Is there a dual mode, where you have a single pointer that all mice affect, and you can switch to multiple pointers, each affected by a single mouse?
• Sam: Support showing / hiding the cursor
• Sam: Reimplement mouse grab support
  • Verify cursor location is correct when ungrabbed
  • Verify proper behavior with Vista DPI scaling

Wishlist

• ???: Pressure/tilt support for tablet like devices
• Sam: Add support color cursors
• Sam: Add support animated cursors

Keyboard Input

Required

• ???: Add support for multiple keyboards (wishlist?)

• green

  • Q: When you're enabling or disabling text events via keystroke, how do you ignore the text generated by the key that is toggling text input?
    • A: Key events are guaranteed to happen first
  • Q: How do you handle key repeat?
• Sam/Jiang: Create IME API and support system IME interfaces
  • Windows

  • green

  • Linux
• Sam: Add name to keysym and name to scancode lookup functions

Joystick Input

Required

• green

  • green - need to fix building on cygwin32

  • green

  • green

• ???: Add support for joystick device live connect and disconnect

Multi-touch Input

Required

• ???: Create multi-touch input API

Multi-threading

Complete

• green

  • green

  • green

  • green

• green

• green

Required

• Sam: Create API for thread priority
• Sam: Create API for thread processor affinity

Timers

Required

• ???: Add higher precision timers for profiling

General

Required

• Sam: Public license for SDL_compat.c, tests, and SDL_main*
• Sam: Create extended set of (negative) error codes and have the API functions document and return them
• Sam: Figure out the best way to support simultaneous SDL 1.2 and SDL 1.3 installations

Wishlist

• ???: Create an API for live video capture
• ???: Create an API for accelerometer data

Ryan has more information on the SDL 1.3 changes that you can find here:
http://icculus.org/cgi-bin/finger/finger.pl?user=icculus&date=2007-10-07&section=sdl13